Current Events > Pro-Palestine Activists Protest PETA's Silence Over Israel's Killing of Animals

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https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/11/9/activists-protest-petas-silence-over-israels-killing-of-animals

Dang, two of the worst advocacy groups around are fighting one another. How tragic.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6-U_jJ4m7QA

Protesting someone for not protesting, what a timeline

DipDipDiver posted...

Protesting someone for not protesting, what a timeline

They do have a point

DipDipDiver posted...

Protesting someone for not protesting, what a timeline

They'll start protesting against other large groups for not protesting alongside them.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2d2c9451.jpg

A_Good_Boy posted...

Dang, two of the worst advocacy groups around are fighting one another. How tragic.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/2864ee27.jpg

You know what. Let them fight for non fighting. See where it takes them

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This is an unfair criticism. PETA doesn't really rescue animals. They are just one gear in the pound system. They've killed about 45,000 animals since 1998 with their record year in 2023 being over 2000 animals.

https://www.nrahlf.org/articles/2024/5/23/report-exposes-peta-s-record-year-for-killing-pets-in-2023/

Everyone else combined kills over 4 million a year including 2.7 million healthy adoptable animals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation_of_domestic_pets

Meaning PETA is only responsible for less than 0.1% of culled animals on a yearly basis and that's only if you assume every single animal killed by PETA is a good candidate for adoption, otherwise it's even less.

The main take away from this all is SPAY AND NEUTER YOUR GOD DAMN PETS EVERYONE. HAS BOB BARKER TAUGHT YOU NOTHING!?

Tyranthraxus posted...

This is an unfair criticism. PETA doesn't really rescue animals.

It really isn't that unfair. There have been multiple reports of them rescuing animals only to immediately euthanize them. They claim that the animals they rescue are too far gone but multiple sources have stated PETA euthanizes pets that are adoptable.

Here's just one article

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/17/peta-sorry-for-taking-girls-dog-putting-it-down

Tyranthraxus posted...

They've killed about 45,000 animals since 1998 with their record year in 2023 being over 2000 animals.

That is at just one Virginia shelter.

MNThunder posted...

That is at just one Virginia shelter.

That is their only shelter. They sometimes import animals from North Carolina into Virginia but don't seem to operate a shelter there. Even if they had 10 more shelters, though, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the industry at large.

MNThunder posted...

It really isn't that unfair. There have been multiple reports of them rescuing animals only to immediately euthanize them. They claim that the animals they rescue are too far gone but multiple sources have stated PETA euthanizes pets that are adoptable.

Like I said, 2.7 million adoptable pets are euthanized each year, and even more unadoptable animals are killed. PETA is part of that system. This is just how we as a country decided that we will deal with strays & feral domestic pets.

As for the one pet incident they seemed to acknowledge it was a mistake. I do not believe that is normal even for them.

Tyranthraxus posted...

That is their only shelter. They sometimes import animals from North Carolina into Virginia but don't seem to operate a shelter there. Even if they had 10 more shelters, though, it's still a drop in the bucket compared to the industry at large.

Sure but you can't compare that to the rest of the US. That one shelter kills more animals then all the other shelters in that state, kills more animals then shelters that deal with animals that can't be rehabilitated. It stands to reason if they had more shelters those shelters would also have a high euthanasia rate .

Tyranthraxus posted...

Like I said, 2.7 million adoptable pets are euthanized each year, and even more unadoptable animals are killed. PETA is part of that system. This is just how we as a country decided that we will deal with strays & feral domestic pets.

Which is a tragedy but PETA carries itself like it's above that and yet they don't more than any one shelter

As for that just being one instance. Former veternarians have stated that PETa will euthanize highly adoptable animals. One quit volunteering with them after the insisted that they take a puppy to get it adopted only to immediately euthanize it.

https://x.com/EyeonPalestine/status/1987406979988443428

MNThunder posted...

Sure but you can't compare that to the rest of the US. That one shelter kills more animals then all the other shelters in that state, kills more animals then shelters that deal with animals that can't be rehabilitated. It stands to reason if they had more shelters those shelters would also have a high euthanasia rate .

They allege that the reason they kill much more proportionally is because they take animals that get refused by other shelters. I have no idea if that's true or not, but they do at least acknowledge that they kill more. I imagine that at least some of the deaths are because they need to make room since they never refuse an animal. And sometimes they just euthanize the animal immediately rather than an older one if they're at capacity.

MNThunder posted...

Which is a tragedy but PETA carries itself like it's above that and yet they don't more than any one shelter

That's a fair criticism I think. But just saying "PETA kills animals" all on its own I feel like leaves out a lot of context as to why they do it in the first place. Killing animals who cannot find a home is unfortunately a very normal thing.

I will add it does seem super fucking weird that PETA is normally super vocal about animal shit all over the world yet won't condemn Israel for literally attacking animals in Gaza. That's clearly straight hypocrisy.

What is the end goal here? If PETA speaks out does how does that help stop the death of these animals? I don't believe has much influence outside of the US.

Tmaster148 posted...

What is the end goal here? If PETA speaks out does how does that help stop the death of these animals? I don't believe has much influence outside of the US.

They do have a lot of influence in the US and it could help turn opinion against Israel. I don't think anyone is expecting them to influence foreign policies.

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Do you think they have some sort of ulterior motive behind their supposed activism?

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That doesn't sound right. According to Wikipedia, 8 million are admitted and 4 million are euthanized, and 2.7 million of the 4 are adoptable.

The average euthanasia rate across every shelter should be a lot higher. Still not close to 79% but like 40-50% average seems more realistic.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I will add it does seem super fucking weird that PETA is normally super vocal about animal shit all over the world yet won't condemn Israel for literally attacking animals in Gaza. That's clearly straight hypocrisy.

Agree.

Tyranthraxus posted...

They allege that the reason they kill much more proportionally is because they take animals that get refused by other shelters. I have no idea if that's true or not, but they do at least acknowledge that they kill more. I imagine that at least some of the deaths are because they need to make room since they never refuse an animal. And sometimes they just euthanize the animal immediately rather than an older one if they're at capacity.

They do but they have been caught multiple times euthanizing animals that were 100% adoptable, and doing it as soon as they get their hands on the animal. Also when you look at shelters that do what PETA claims they do those shelters still have significantly lower euthanizing rates. Heck PETA attacks no kill shelters for not euthanizing animals

emblem-man posted...

Do you think they have some sort of ulterior motive behind their supposed activism?

PETA's position is that animals should not be pets at all and that the vast majority of pet owners are bad and will do significantly more harm to the pet then any good. So the philosophy is if an animal is going to suffer as a pet it is then better to just euthanize it out of mercy.